Nights from the Alhambra

Live album by Loreena McKennitt

Released

August 21, 2007

Recorded

September 13-15, 2006

Genre

Folk, World music

Label

Quinlan Road, Verve

Loreena McKennitt chronology

An Ancient Muse
(2006)

Nights from the Alhambra
(2007)

A Midwinter Night's Dream
(2008)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Nights from the Alhambra is a live album and DVD from the Canadian singer, songwriter, accordionist, harpist, and pianist, Loreena McKennitt and is her first live concert DVD.^[2] It was recorded in September 2006, live at the Palace of Charles V, in the Alhambra, Granada, Spain, and released commercially in September 2007.

Track listing

Disk 1

"The Mystic's Dream" (The Mask and Mirror)
"She Moved Through the Fair" (Elemental)
"Stolen Child" (Elemental)
"The Mummer's Dance" (The Book of Secrets)
"Penelope's Song" (An Ancient Muse)
"Marco Polo" (The Book of Secrets)
"The Bonny Swans" (The Mask and Mirror)
"Dante's Prayer" (The Book of Secrets)
"Caravanserai" (An Ancient Muse)

Disk 2

"Bonny Portmore" (The Visit)
"Santiago" (The Mask and Mirror)
"Raglan Road" (An Ancient Muse - unreleased track)
"All Souls Night" (The Visit)
"The Lady of Shalott" (The Visit)
"The Old Ways" (The Visit)
"Never-Ending Road (Amhrán Duit)" (An Ancient Muse)
"Huron `Beltane` Fire Dance" (Parallel Dreams)
"Cymbeline" (The Visit)

The DVD track listing is the same except that all the songs are on the same disc. The DVD also includes McKennitt's spoken introductions to songs, which are omitted from the CDs.

Personnel

Tal Bergman: drums and percussion
Panos Dimitrakopoulos: kanoun
Nigel Eaton: hurdy-gurdy
Steáfán Hannigan: Uilleann pipes, bodhrán, percussion
Brian Hughes: band leader, electric and acoustic guitars, oud, Celtic bouzouki
Caroline Lavelle: cello
Rick Lazar: percussion
Hugh Marsh: violin
Tim Landers: acoustic and electric bass
Loreena McKennitt: vocals, accordion, harp, piano
Donald Quan: viola, keyboards, tabla
Sokratis Sinopoulos: lyra
Haig Yazdjian: oud

References

↑ Allmusic review
↑ Quinlan Road - News and Views, Quinlanroad.com.

Loreena McKennitt

Studio albums	Elemental (1985) To Drive the Cold Winter Away (1987) Parallel Dreams (1989) The Visit (1991) The Mask and Mirror (1994) The Book of Secrets (1997) An Ancient Muse (2006) A Midwinter Night's Dream (2008) The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2010)

Live albums	Live in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts (1995) Live in Paris and Toronto (1999) Nights from the Alhambra (2007) A Mediterranean Odyssey (2009) Troubadours On the Rhine (2012)

EPs	A Winter Garden: Five Songs for the Season (1995)

Compilations	The Best of Loreena McKennitt (1997) A Mummers' Dance Through Ireland (2009) The Journey So Far – The Best of Loreena McKennitt (2013)

Box sets	The Journey Begins (2008)

Videos	No Journey's End (1995) Nights from the Alhambra (2007) A Moveable Musical Feast (2008)

Singles	"The Lady of Shalott" "All Souls Night" "Courtyard Lullaby" "Greensleeves" "The Bonny Swans" "Santiago" "The Dark Night of the Soul" "The Mystic's Dream" "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" "The Mummers' Dance" "Marco Polo" "Caravanserai" "Penelope's Song" "The Seven Rejoices of Mary" "Noël Nouvelet!" "Dante's Prayer"

Related topics	Quinlan Road McKennitt v Ash

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